Todd Akin
Todd Akin
William Todd Akinis a former U.S. Representative for Missouri's 2nd congressional district, serving from 2001 to 2013. He is a member of the Republican Party...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 July 1947
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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I have consistently supported tax relief to create a more robust economy and to stimulate long-term economic recovery.
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I will continue to work in Congress to reign-in the federal judiciary and return it to its constitutional function of applying the law, not legislating from the bench.
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And that is certainly a new use of the filibuster and something which threatens to shut down our entire confirmation process for the courts.
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The arrival of the Pope to the birthplace of the first cathedral west of the Mississippi was truly an honor and Americans poured into St. Louis to participate in prayer services, a rally and celebration mass.
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This law would define China and Taiwan as a unified country, and unilaterally change mainland China's legal approach to status of Taiwan. This is an unwelcome and provocative action that would increase, rather than calm, tensions in the region.
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One pillar was the conviction that God grants life as an inalienable right, and they fought so that pillar would not be toppled by tyrants.
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They've been legislating from the bench and they've been inventing various broad sweeping powers or inventing policy that they find intuitively in the Constitution which to any clear-minded person is not there at all.
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So part of my work was just an educational job of bringing congressmen up to speed that we had this power.
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By making tax relief permanent, we can stay on that course and avoid slowing our economy just as it is revving up.
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This is not about who is running the media, this is about the question of the shock jocks who have been pushing the moral envelope for all too long and the vulgar and indecent comments that come over the public airwaves.
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There is simply no excuse for that crudeness on the public airwaves.
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We need to help married couples and their families, not penalize them with a higher tax rate.
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Now, an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but, in fact, the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person.
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You find that along with the culture of death go all kinds of other law-breaking: Not following good sanitary procedure, giving abortions to women who are not actually pregnant, cheating on taxes, all these kinds of things.